The Industrial History of Hong Kong Group
Preserving Hong Kong’s Industrial Heritage
Hugh Farmer with thanks to IDJ: Some initial notes on William Seybourne Bailey founder with EO Murphy of WS Bailey & Co, Bailey’s Shipyard, Hong Kong. Thanks to Robyn Evans, WS Bailey’s granddaughter for birth and death details. Robyn adds the information on his gravestone is incorrect. born Dublin 15th April 1859 died War Memorial Hospital Hong Kong 27th December […]
» Read moreOur article, Alfred Herbert Rennie – biography, the Hongkong Milling Company and his suicide, includes the following information: The troubled career of Alfred Hebert Rennie is remembered in a former coastal village at JUnk Bay (now Tseung Kwan O) in Kowloon, where he opened a flour mill in early 1907. Scion of a well known Ontario family, Rennie was educated […]
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HF: Islay Jamieson added the following comment on 9th July 2024 attached to our article, Imperial Airways – including first scheduled flight into Hong Kong 1936 ”Just reading this…researching my father’s career…did you ever come across Maurice Curtis my father who was the local manager for Imperial Airways in Hong Kong…my mother flew out to Hong Kong on a flying […]
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HF: Standing at 552 metres above sea level, the Peak is the highest mountain on Hong Kong Island and a natural signaling post for incoming cargo ships in the nineteenth century. The more privileged early residents, however, found it the perfect retreat from Hong Kong’s scorching summer heat. Governor Sir Richard MacDonnell’s summer home (circa 1868) was built there to […]
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Billy Clarke has forwarded a link to a film made by HK URBEX of a visit by the group underground at Ma On Shan Iron mine. I think the visit was in March 2014. From their website “HK URBEX visits the once booming iron ore mine. Between 1953 and 1976, this was home to thousands of iron ore miners. But […]
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IDJ has sent a series of articles about managers at Taikoo Dockyard: “Kenneth Edward Grieg, was born in Perth in 1882 and went to school at Perth Academy. At sixteen he entered on an engineering apprenticeship in the Caledonian Railway locomotive shops at Perth but went to the North Eastern Marine Engineering Co. at Wallsend-on-Tyne in 1900 to complete his […]
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Hugh Farmer: The article, Needle Hill Tungsten Mine, says that, “The deposit was discovered in 1935 by a civil engineer, Mr G Hull, who was working on the construction of the Jubilee Reservoir (now known as Shing Mun)…Hull obtained a mining licence in the same year but the lease was subsequently transferred to Marsman Hong Kong China Ltd. Marsman undertook prospecting […]
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IDJ has sent this article about the HKSMEE’s first model engineering exhibition which took place in February 1986. The exhibition was formally opened, but in rather jolly way, by Mr Peter Quick, the then Managing Director of the Kowloon Canton Railway Corporation, who drove a model locomotive through a banner and around the 300ft oval track. The article also says […]
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